‘South Park’ mocks Trump over Homeland Security’s ICE recruitment post
“South Park” trolled President Donald Trump after Homeland Security used a show screenshot in an ICE recruitment post.
“South Park” just escalated its war against President Donald Trump to a wild new level.
The animated series’ latest episode, which aired Nov. 12, shocked viewers with a scene depicting Trump having sex with Vice President JD Vance.
The episode, titled “Sora Not Sorry,” continued a storyline where Trump is in a romantic relationship with Satan and expecting a baby with him. In previous episodes, Vance has been secretly working with Peter Thiel in a plot to prevent the baby’s birth, and in “Sora Not Sorry,” Trump gets on board with the plan.
The episode depicts Trump scheming with Vance in a hot tub, which leads up to a graphic scene where the president and the vice president have sex in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Meanwhile, the episode’s main plot concerns the kids at South Park Elementary spreading AI-generated videos of each other, leading the police, and IP lawyers, to get involved.
The two stories converge when police discover security camera footage of Trump and Vance having sex at the White House. The video ends up on Fox News, but Trump quickly calls in to insist it’s AI generated. Despite the footage being real, Fox accepts Trump’s lie. Trump also lies to Satan that the video is fake, but in the closing scene, he covertly meets up with Vance and makes out with him.
For a show with no shortage of shocking moments over the years, even “South Park” fans were surprised by the new episode. “I’ve never been more disturbed by something but laughed as hard at the same time as the Vance-Trump hookup,” one fan commented on Reddit.
With its latest episode, “South Park” continued its streak of focusing heavily on spoofing the Trump administration. The animated show introduced a new parody of Trump, established as being in a romantic relationship with Satan, during its Season 27 premiere in July. At the time, a White House spokesperson, Taylor Rogers, hit back in a statement, saying that “South Park” “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.”
Since then, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have continued to double down, mocking Trump in every new episode of “South Park” and turning members of his administration into recurring characters. The plot about Trump expecting a baby with Satan has been ongoing since September.
Parker and Stone recently spoke to The New York Times about the decision to focus so heavily on Trump in recent episodes. They told the outlet they initially thought Trump would make a one-off appearance in the Season 27 premiere, but they decided to bring him back after feeling they found a “vein of comedy.”
“It’s not that we got all political,” Parker told the Times. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”
But during a recent Halloween episode, “The Woman in the Hat,” the show got meta to address fans who have been displeased with the recent political storylines. In the episode, Stan Marsh starts a movement declaring that “South Park sucks now” because of “all this political” stuff.
When will the next ‘South Park’ episode air?
“South Park” is scheduled to return in two weeks, with a new episode scheduled to air Nov. 26, the day before Thanksgiving. After that, the following episode is scheduled for Dec. 10.
